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Well, kinda. People pay into Social Security. Pensions are funded either from employees, employers, or most likely both. The idea behind SS is sound: people pay into their whole working lives and use it only when they have to. Also, people are encouraged to have retirement funds and other back-ups. Nobody plans on living off their SS alone.

That whole sentiment has always creeped me the fuck out. That's some next level Purity Ball shit right there.

WWII was a fight against a real, practical threat. Hitler used violence to enforce his ideas, the Allies used violence to cease his ruthless aggression against the world. Everything you mentioned are fights against an idea (or to protect one), not for one.

Never ever make yourself less smart to impress somebody, or change the way you act in general.